Category: Faculty News

The Army Research Office (ARO) has awarded Domenic Forte, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Director of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research Scan Lab, a $1 million grant to study ways and means of securing electronic hardware systems.

Dr. José Fortes was one of three Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering faculty recently named University of Florida Research Foundation (UFRF) Professors for 2019-2022.

Mark Law, ECE Distinguished Professor, was recently inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars (ADTS).

Swarup Bhunia, Ph.D., has been named as Director of the Institute and the Sachio Semmoto Professor. My T. Thai, Ph.D., a UF Research Foundation Professor, has been selected as the Associate Director of the Institute.

Dr. Yier Jin is a recipient of a 2019 Office of Naval Research YIP award, for “On-Chip Intelligent Sensor Based Real-Time Analog Trojan Detection Framework for Microprocessor Trustworthiness.”

We are excited to welcome Christophe Bobda, Zoleikha Biron, and Farimah Farahmandi to the department.

ECE Florida is proud to acknowledge Daniela Oliveira’s receipt of the Google Security and Privacy Research Award.

ECE professor Dr. Shuo Wang has been elevated to the rank of IEEE Fellow, for contributions to reduction of electromagnetic interference in electronic systems.

The $600k grant supports their project which aims to design, implement, and fabricate REVELARE, a security solution for IoT devices, which protects IoT devices in two ways.

Machine Intelligence Lab (MIL) students are looking for assistance in getting to Hawaii to defend their Maritime RobotX World Championship.